Thursday, November 22, 2007

Happy Birthday to Me (and Sorry for the Lateness).

Sorry about Wednesday's comic being a bit late, but it was my birthday and it's kind of hard to say "opening presents and eating cake is going to have to wait...cartoon sheep need shading!".

In case you're wondering I'm 26, which means I'm now closer to 30 and 20...in other words I'm an old man. On the upside at least being a senior citizen now means I get a discount at the movies.

In birthday related news that ties in with the comic, I got me a Wacom tablet as a gift. I've been wanting one of these for a while, if only so I can say I have one. You can't be a webcomic artist these days and not have a Wacom tablet. It's nothing too fancy, just a medium-sized Bamboo Fun (I realize that sounds like a toy you'd give a preschooler, but the Bamboo tablets are actually a replacement/continuation/improvement of the Graphire line).

^ I realize the above paragraph will make absolutely no sense to most of you with the exception of a small handful of my readers who also draw comics. To put it simply I got me a new toy that lets me draw on the computer without a mouse.

I've been playing around with the tablet quite a bit (and shaded today's comic with it). Maybe I'll post some sketches I did with it tomorrow or something, but for now I have to go to bed. Us old folks can't be staying up all night.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Happy Belated Birthday.

And you're right...that paragraph made no sense. sounds like a toy to me. :)

Anonymous said...

Thanks ya S!

Heh, and yeah...it basically is a fancy electronic toy for grown-ups.

Likalia said...

Happy Belated Birthday!

Stumbled onto your comic, read through the entire archive (VERY slow day at work). It is very cute and funny. :)

Anonymous said...

I'm just a kid and I have a tablet...lovely piece of equipment there. Although mine's no wacom, it was about fourty bucks. Still happy birthday! :-)

Anonymous said...

Thanks Likalia and Shine!

[Gives Shine the secret tablet-havers handshake].

Oh, and sorry Monday's comic was a bit late...Comicgenesis was having issues.